WATER. Las Vegas Urban Expansion

Not even go into the idea of ​​giant casinos, luxury hotels, Gil Grissom, between the naked and kitsch, or in other scale, the chapels and weddings with a priest dressed as Elvis, but rather to see what all this produces in 10 years, Mental desert, where the urban area of ​​this city in Nevada is seen through a video made by Google Earth. The animation of satellite images shows the relationship between this urban growth model, the consumer space, and water networks. A sample of the "urban hangover" that will come with the "toast to sun" by our politicians.

Each frame of the timelapse map is constructed from a year of Landsat satellite data, constituting annual 1.7-terapixel snapshot of the Earth at 30-meter resolution. The Landsat program, managed by the USGS, has been acquiring images of the Earth's surface since 1972. Landsat provides critical scientific information about our changing planet. Credit: CMU.

We also include the video on the same situation in the Aral Sea. Google Earth celebrates 12 years of research with more videos, you can see here. Although it features, not to celebrate or be happy about anything.